War between the Malian army and Islamist rebel groups wages on. However, in the early weeks of 2013, tensions between these groups and the Malian army became increasingly hostile. Since then, witnesses have reported seeing dozens of children involved in

SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (CNN) -- The boys shuffle into the room in a remote army base high in the mountains of Pakistan's Swat Valley. They are disheveled, disoriented.
These boys say they were kidnapped by the Taliban and trained to be suicide bombers

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Wisconsin for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys. Dahmer, 31, was unable to convince the jury that his cannibalism and necrophilia were the result of madness.

A 12-year-old Indian girl was beaten and then hanged by her mother for demanding she be sent to school. The girl was beaten unconscious with a rolling pin by her mother in a village in Jodhpur district in the western desert state of Rajasthan this month.